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RezErect: When a geoduck is more than a geoduck
The Bill Reid Gallery is going where indigenous art hasn’t gone before with an exhibition on sexuality and sensuality opening Wednesday. Called RezErect: Native Erotica, the exhibition is bound to push...
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Kwakwaka’wakw potlatch masks: Art made to be destroyed
Thursday, May 21 update: Beau Dick, Walas Gyiyam, will be giving another talk about the connection between the oral histories of the Kwakwaka’wakw at the exhibition The Box of Treasures at 2 pm Sunday,...
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To Ellen Neel, indigenous art was a living symbol of the Kwakwaka’wakw
In April, 1948, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Ellen Neel gave a speech at the University of B.C. She was asked to talk about what was then called Indian art and the potential for a commercial market at the...
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Art from the Archive: Mungo Martin lying in state in Wa’waditla
The image above records a moment during a solemn occasion. A couple of women and a man are paying their last respects as they stand beside a carved box holding the remains of Mungo Martin, one of the...
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Art from the Archive: the Neel family photographed as a totem pole
The image above is one of my favorites in the archive of The Vancouver Sun. It shows Ellen Neel, her husband Edward and five of their children on top of one another. Almost everyone is smiling. They...
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ART SEEN: Being serious about play is no joke for Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Being an effective trickster takes more than irreverence to pull off. To do it well enough so you’re not simply offending people, it means knowing and respecting the tradition you’re working in. The...
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ART SEEN: Haida artist Hazel Wilson dies in Vancouver
Haida artist Hazel Wilson has died. She was 75. Wilson spent the last several months in and out of Vancouver General Hospital said Robert Kardosh, director of Marion Scott Gallery where the artist’s...
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ART SEEN: Art galleries move into historic 1931 building on East Hastings
When LaTiesha Fazakas started making a documentary about Beau Dick, she thought, oh, it might take a year. Now, six years into it, she’s on track for a theatrical release in the spring of 2017....
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